Farah Pahlavi (Farah Diba) Quotes
There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.
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My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls, and I'm married, but we've got a nanny and a maid.
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I'd have to say the biggest transformation would be my schedule. I'm really, really busy, but it's a lot of fun.
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Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.
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If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.
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The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.
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I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the language, and, probably most important of all, my Iranian father left home when I was nine months old. That's the extent of my connection to Iran.
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One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
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Engvall and his wife are packing up their stuff to move, with a U-Haul sitting in their driveway.
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The old joke about the two main Soviet papers, Pravda ('Truth') and Izvestia ('News'), was 'There’s no news in the Truth and no truth in the News!'
Garry Kasparov -
I guess people would categorize hipster rap just by how people look, skinny jeans and fashion rap. I was never that. In my music I never put the emphasis on clothes.
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I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.
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Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.
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There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.
